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Religious Persecution
Wienclaw, R.A. (2009). Religion and Society: Religious Persecution. 1-5.
The article is examines the issue of religious persecution from a theoretical perspective. The author places the challenge of international persecution within the most appropriate theoretical context. Theory seeks to accomplish three purposes namely to describe, explain or predict phenomenon. This work attempts to accomplish the first two objectives. The author describes the nature of religious persecution. Following the description the author, tries to identify key independent variables that are able to explain the phenomenon. Consequently, it is not an examination of data that is produced from any primary research. The author combines existing knowledge of about persecution with secondary evidence to produce a compelling narrative about the nature of persecution and the central sociological issues involved in addressing persecution. The author is not reporting on any new research.
There was a useful attempt by the author to categorize religious persecution. The categorization of religious persecution is the first step in providing a...
The author identifies a continuum of behaviors that can be legitimately considered as religious persecution. The behaviors range from the simple verbal assaults to physical violence against another person. This categorization provides a nominal level of measure. It is however an essential component of the attempt to measure the variable. The next logical step as identified by the authors is to produce a scale that allows for the quantitative measure of the problem. Only counting the numbers of persons who have experienced religious persecution does not allow researchers to measure the problem. True measurement begins when social scientists can measure the thing it self not just the persons who have experienced religious persecution.
Another important consideration from the article is that there is persecution that occurs within religious groups. The author is therefore identifying within group persecution as well as between group persecutions. The within group persecution was not a behavior that came readily to mind as a legitimate form of persecution. However, the…
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